Archaeology for Historians: How Material Evidence Is Transforming Our Understanding of the Early Middle Ages

Despite the growing importance of interdisciplinarity, long-standing obstacles to dialogue between archaeology and the humanities persist. Archaeology is by far the most rapidly growing source of evidence for the late antique and early medieval past, and historians need a basic background in its methods and debates to facilitate critical engagement with a vast body of data that extends far beyond the documentary record. Given the many difficulties—and potential pitfalls—of launching oneself...